1.
Non-being, verily, does one become if he as non-being
knows Brahman. If one knows that Brahman is, then they
regard him as being. Thus (reads the verse).

2.
Thereof, -- of the former, -- i.e. of the Vijnanamaya,
this one, surely, -- namely, the Anadamaya, -- is the
embodied Self, i.e., the Self dwelling in the Vijnanamaya
body.

3.
Hence, then, the questions that follow: whether does
any one who knows not, departing, goes [sic] to that
region? Or, does anyone who knows, departing, attain
that region?

4.
He desired: many may I be, may I be born!

5.
He made tapas.

6.
Having made tapas, He sent forth all this, and what
of this more.

7.
This having sent forth, into that very thing He then
entered.

8.
That having entered, both the being and the beyond He
became, the definite and the indefinite, the abode and
the non-abode, the conscious and the unconscious; both
the real and the false did the Real become, and whatever
else is there. That, they say, is the Real.